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Political analysts and observers were stunned on Monday after details of a call between President Donald Trump and a Democratic mayor were released.

Trump spoke with Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey on Monday, two days after immigration agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse who was attending a protest as a legal observer. The call happened on the same day that Trump spoke with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, also a Democrat, in a move that one of Trump's closest allies saw as a U-turn on a winning issue for the administration.

A federal appeals court on Monday again dashed efforts by advocates to rein in the tactics President Donald Trump's immigration forces use against protesters, according to a new report.

Josh Gerstein, senior legal affairs reporter for Politico, reported that the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals declined to uphold a temporary injunction issued by District Judge Katherine Menendez in Minnesota, which it argued was "too broad" and "too vague." The injunction expressly prohibited immigration agents from using chemical agents, pepper spray, and crowd control munitions against legal observers and other peaceful protesters.

One of President Donald Trump's closest allies flipped out on Monday after the president did another U-turn on the situation in Minneapolis.

Steve Bannon, a former White House advisor, said on his "War Room" podcast on Monday that Trump "blinked" in Minneapolis after the president and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, had "a very good call." Trump announced on Truth Social that he and Walz discussed how to work together on immigration operations in the state, and that the two leaders seemed to be "on a similar wavelength."

CNN aired a damning montage on Monday afternoon that laid waste to a narrative President Donald Trump's administration has woven about the killing of a nurse in Minneapolis over the weekend.

On Saturday, ICU nurse Alex Pretti was gunned down by a swarm of immigration agents. Pretti intervened after an agent forcibly shoved a woman to the ground. Videos captured by eyewitnesses showed agents swarming Pretti, disarming him, and then taking him to the ground before firing at him. About 10 bullets were shot at Pretti, who died at the scene, according to reports.

A federal judge is demanding that lawyers representing President Donald Trump's administration reveal the real reason why it surged immigration officers into Minneapolis, according to a new report.

Adam Klasfeld, editor-in-chief of All Rise News, reported on Monday that U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez of the District Court of Minnesota, ordered Trump lawyers to answer allegations made by the State of Minnesota that the purpose of "Operation Metro Surge" is to punish the state's political leadership and overturn state policies the administration disagrees with.

President Donald Trump announced that he is raising tariffs on one of America's largest trade partners over the country's progress toward ratifying a "historic" trade agreement.

Last year, Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on several of America's trade partners, including South Korea, a country that produces goods ranging from washing machines to cars and pharmaceuticals. Trump announced on Monday that he is increasing tariffs on South Korea from 10% to 25% because of the country's alleged failure to ratify the trade agreement struck last year.

News that Customs and Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino will depart Minneapolis after an immigration agent shot and killed an ICU nurse over the weekend sparked outrage online.

CNN's Kaitlan Collins, Priscilla Alvarez, and Kristen Holmes reported on Monday that Bovino will leave Minneapolis as early as Tuesday. His departure happened after immigration agents expressed frustration with Bovino's characterization of slain ICU nurse Alex Pretti, 37, as a terrorist who wanted to "massacre" law enforcement.

At least 30 current and former immigration agents have been charged or convicted of violent offenses, according to a new report.

Two advocacy groups, the Ohio Immigrant Alliance and the Pacific Antifascist Collective, published an updated list on Monday of immigration officers, all of whom are men, who have been accused of various violent offenses. The list shows that all but one officer has been charged with sex offenses, and two-thirds committed sexual crimes against children. It covers agents from both Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol.

Donald Trump's recent spate of Truth Social posts claiming his poor polling numbers are both inaccurate and "criminal" signal that he recognizes the limits of his ability to control public perception, despite wielding substantial governmental power.

According to MSNBC columnist Kaivan Shroff, Trump has long possessed a "norm-defying" capacity to shape his personal narrative. That ability is now eroding during his second term.

Yale historian Timothy Snyder has a grim view of the Trump administration's lethal Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdown: it's the early stages of totalitarianism, and must be treated as such.

"We have to see the logic of the killings as well as the killings themselves," wrote Snyder on his Substack. "The horror is a truth in itself. But it is also a sign of a political logic, one known from the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century, Soviet as well as Nazi, and from attempts to replace the rule of law with personal tyranny. It is the logic of lies and of lawlessness."